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Caption: The VIA station at Sackville, NB is a nice basic structure. Too bad it is, of October 2012, closed. The train still stops here, but on-train crews handle baggage after VIA axed the staff here and at nearby Amherst due to funding cuts. It is the same all across the country. The government is bound and determined to kill what there is left in passenger traffic by making it as inconvenient as possible and then plead that "nobody rides the damn thing." At least that is how I see it.
This station opened in 1907, the first building a small wooden building destroyed by fire. The railroad first came to town when the Intercolonial opened here in 1887. A further extension to the Northumberland Strait at Cape Tormentine and a PEI ferry made this location even more important as a junction.
That was then. Not now.
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I spent an afternoon here in 2002 and shot the VIA making a stop. At least it was still open back then. So sad what has become of rail service in this country.
Check out the Detroit based auto offerings:
GM Citation; dud (fist FWD offering)
GM Chevette; strangely popular dud
Plymouth Volara; fairly reliable transportation, mostly due to the virtually indestructible ‘Slant Six’
Note not an off shore competitor in sight!
Oops!
Plymouth Volare!
Stuart: The flood of imports started in the late 70s though……introducing pipsqueak puddle jumpers when we were driving land yachts. Pushing the ‘pros’ of efficiency and saving money on gas was the effective strategy. And the stampede was on to buy these little things. We worsened it by marketing Vegas and Pintos. (UGH) Myself, I have never strayed from “The Big Three” beasts.